Poem Analysis of You Can't Forget The Past by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem You Can't Forget The Past that begins with:

I wont be the one,
Getting less sleep....

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Rhyme scheme: AXaX abXb CCDC CCDC Aeee CCDCXCCDCAcCDCAd
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,16,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 11001 1011 011111 011101 111001 001001 1101111 010101 01 110101 010011 100111 01 110101 010011 100111 11001 1000101 010111010 1101 01 110101 010011 100111 01 110101 010011 100111 111001 11010101 110101 010011 100111 111001 11110111
Amount of stanzas: 7
Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
Average number of words per stanza: 25
Amount of lines: 35
Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; past, to are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines past is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word last at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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